Shopping for travel deals? We listed a few highlights here and here over the past few days. Here are just a few more Black Friday travel deals we spotted in our inbox after our Thanksgiving meal. Ryanair is offering a Buy One Get One Half Price offer. Quick – sign up for The Club Airport […]
Heading to the airport this holiday weekend? Check to make sure you’re up on the latest changes. Shoes out of the bin, buddy! Like what? Well, the TSA has decided that you still need to take off your shoes and send them through the X-ray machine, but now those shoes need to ride on the […]
Would you load your own baggage? You book online, you print out your own boarding pass, why not load your own luggage on the plane? According to a Reuter’s report: Europe’s largest low-cost airline Ryanair is looking at the possibility of getting passengers to carry their luggage all the way to the plane, cutting out […]
Airlines have been piling on fees for everything from in-flight meals and pillows to checked baggage service and a tiny bit of extra legroom. And just yesterday, in a story I reported on for MSNBC.com, United Airlines announced new charges for ‘seatmates of size.’ After toying with putting pay-boxes on airplane lavatories, travelers gave Ryanair […]
After alarming travelers with the ‘joke’ about on-board pay-toilets (don’t be surprised…), Ryanair officials asked travelers to send in their own ideas for other discretionary fees that could be charged. They did. As of today (April 14th) close to 45,000 votes have been cast. And sadly, so far more than 20,000 people have voted in […]
Shopping for travel deals? We listed a few highlights here and here over the past few days. Here are just a few more Black Friday travel deals we spotted in our inbox after our Thanksgiving meal. Ryanair is offering a Buy One Get One Half Price offer. Quick – sign up for The Club Airport […]
Heading to the airport this holiday weekend? Check to make sure you’re up on the latest changes. Shoes out of the bin, buddy! Like what? Well, the TSA has decided that you still need to take off your shoes and send them through the X-ray machine, but now those shoes need to ride on the […]
Would you load your own baggage? You book online, you print out your own boarding pass, why not load your own luggage on the plane? According to a Reuter’s report: Europe’s largest low-cost airline Ryanair is looking at the possibility of getting passengers to carry their luggage all the way to the plane, cutting out […]
Airlines have been piling on fees for everything from in-flight meals and pillows to checked baggage service and a tiny bit of extra legroom. And just yesterday, in a story I reported on for MSNBC.com, United Airlines announced new charges for ‘seatmates of size.’ After toying with putting pay-boxes on airplane lavatories, travelers gave Ryanair […]
After alarming travelers with the ‘joke’ about on-board pay-toilets (don’t be surprised…), Ryanair officials asked travelers to send in their own ideas for other discretionary fees that could be charged. They did. As of today (April 14th) close to 45,000 votes have been cast. And sadly, so far more than 20,000 people have voted in […]
Some folks were predicting that this would be the year that some airlines start charging passengers by weight. But it looks like this will be the year that some airlines – or maybe just those wacky nickel-and-dime’em folks at RyanAir – are going to start charging folks to use the lav. What do you think?
Air France gave it a test run last year and now Ryanair is going full speed ahead with in-flight cell-phone service. Here’s a report from CNN about one of the first (press-heavy) flights. Wish I’d been there just to see the cell-phone costume in person. Embedded video from CNN Video